Another Obama “presidential” seal?

posted at 2:10 pm on August 23, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

Via Ace and Stop the ACLU, it looks like the design team at the Barack Obama campaign have too much time on their hands. On their campaign website, the background image adapts the basics of the presidential seal — again — into an Obama campaign logo. This time, though, they’ve managed a little subtlety:

This time, Team Obama avoided the faux Latin for the normal “E Pluribus Unum”, but the rest of the design still screams “presumptuous”. Once again, we have the O Logo in the dead center, and an oddly oriented eagle — or what appears to be an eagle — clutching nothing but olive branches.

Didn’t Barack Obama learn from his last attempt to fashion his own “seal”? This looks a lot like compensation for either an unbridled ego or a person worried about his lack of credentials.

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Didn’t Barack Obama learn from his last attempt to fashion his own “seal”?

If you keep trying to make a boat out of materials at hand you may eventually construct one that floats. They will just keep practicing until they get the ONE that doesn’t go down with all hands aboard.

Remember when you were in high school and you practiced signing your name, just to see what it would look like? Or the girls would sign their names with their current boyfriend’s last name ‘cuz it would be so kool to be a ‘Mrs.’?

The Blue Eagle… was proclaimed on July 20, 1933 as the symbol of industrial recovery by Hugh S. Johnson, a follower of Italian Fascism, the head of the National Recovery Administration. It does bear strong resemblance to the German Eagle.

…On September 5, 1935, following the invalidation of the compulsory code system, the emblem was abolished and its future use as a symbol was prohibited.

I was checking to see how Barry was using his new seal (which does not look like an Eagle at all, but rather resembles a beast with wings) and darn it if Sam Graham Felsen, Barry’s Marxist blogger isn’t inviting you all to tell Joe how fabulous he is:

Breaking news: the text message is out and it’s official… Barack Obama has selected Joe Biden to be his running mate!

Please take a minute to share your story with Joe and welcome him into our movement for change. For those of you who are from Delaware and know Joe best, we’d love to hear your experiences as a constituent of Senator Biden’s.

We’ll make sure to share some of your stories with Senator Biden so he gets a chance to better know the remarkable folks who’ve built this campaign from the bottom up.

As Senator Obama and Senator Biden head to Denver, your grassroots support is more critical than ever.

The eagle is facing leftward (its own left). It appears to be a leftward-facing Presidential eagle, except it has freely surrendered its arrows. Behold the second Carter Administration in all its glory!

This time, Team Obama avoided the faux Latin for the normal “E Pluribus Unum”, but the rest of the design still screams “presumptuous”. Once again, we have the O Logo in the dead center, and an oddly oriented eagle — or what appears to be an eagle — clutching nothing but olive branches.

Typical Obama. Tribute is better than War to him. It may even be better than Peace.

The fact that the eagle is clutching only olive branches is an obvious design element. Did they get the stars on the right portion of the flag this time?
Think_b4_speaking on August 23, 2008 at 2:14 PM

There is a single arrow on the seal but it appears to be piercing the flag. Very weird.
eaglephin on August 23, 2008 at 2:24 PM

The bizarre Obama canadidacy is so overtly so anti-American I assumed it had to be a joke

A gimmick to rehabilitate Hillary by making her appear moderate and reasoned in comparison since that is the one success of his campaign

However the Black voter factor does not compute

The second possibility is extreme ignorance and stupidity

The third possibility mentioned by someone else on Hotair was the Obama candidacy was a Soros joke to flaunt his power and slap American values he despises

A very smart friend has another idea.

Obama rushes his campaign to Europe as a Citizen of the World. He despises symbols of American patriotism, including the ones with two legs, our soldiers. He worships at the Church of GD America

My friend and I have both talked with many people who are shocked and angry we are being force fed candidates we dislike on both sides

The primaries on both sides were not referendums, but were manipulated to disembowel the votes

My friend believes there is a movement to make people think it was never their choice in candidate selection.

We are being taught it is a global world, run from the top, a world without borders or flags. He thinks there is an attempt ongoing to make Americans believe they are not in control of their land tract anymore. Movements are working to blot out the American sense of individual power.

The Minuteman image of the defiant American going out to fight for his freedom and the image of the rattlesnake who will strike back, “Don’t Tread on Me” us under attack

By organized forces or just a momentum driven by financial and political groups with similar need it does not matter.